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Re: Doubts about pointers

Subject: Re: Doubts about pointers
From: Nick Keighley
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:11:59 -0700 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

On 26 Mar, 22:11, Simon <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

> Actually I'm mostly learning C from the book by H. Schildt, which is
> excellent but it doesn't mention near and far pointers at all. I find
> them quite confusing, so I think any book should explain them clearly.
>
> As for being obsolete, the good thing is that Borland have released
> Turbo-C for free now, so there's no need to worry about Micro$oft
> license fees. Also C doesn't change much!

there are many free compilers for modern systems (no near and far).
If you are confined to Windows then there is a gcc based one (ming-w
(sp?))
lcc (no charge for non-commercial use) and even Microsoft express
versions.


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Nick Keighley

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